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enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. any time anywhere. could have you with us in moscow tonight now police say twelve bodies been recovered from the site of wednesday's explosion at that fertilizer plant in texas the total death toll from the tragedy though remains unclear still search and rescue teams are continuing their work with the fate of many missing people and hundreds were injured when that devastating blast ripped through the small town of west bengal and the reports of missing. several police departments from around texas cordoned off a large area around the fertilizer plant which exploded now i just came back from

one of the local hospitals which admittedly nearly one hundred people who were injured in the explosion overall we know that more than one hundred sixty people were hurt in the blast right now there have been come for unpaid televisa however we haven't gotten a new casualty count recently given the fact that this is still a search and rescue mission we did speak to one woman earlier who was slightly wounded during the explosion she lived in the vicinity of the blast her family was ok but so many of her friends she did not know the whereabouts sweet about the kids my kids their friends live in those partment those houses we don't know about them we don't know about some of the fathers or friends if so what happened during school hours i mean it's it's still bad but if the kids were in school it was real close by some of the first responders digging through the rubble this morning still

hoping to find survivors in a neighborhood which has been described as a war zone i can tell you i was there i walked through the blast area i searched some houses massive just like iraq just like the murray building in oklahoma city same town and exploded so you can imagine what kind of damage we're looking out there. i know there was at least seventy five to fifty fifty to seventy five houses damaged there's a partner complex that has about fifty units in it that was completely. just skeleton standing no investigation is still underway for the root cause meanwhile police and firefighters are still searching the rubble near the fertilizer plant. the tragedies caused many people to question where the basic industrial safety regulations were being enforced in the us the plants been accused of understating the amount of highly flammable gas in hydrous ammonia that was still there the way

to safety reports conducted the facility and did stated there was no fire or explosive risk in the deed the worst possible scenario could be a ten minute release of a mostly a guess without any casualties of course though this blast shook houses around eighty kilometers away resulting in multiple casualties professor jeffrey pattison spoke to me from the school of medicine it was comes to university he believes that lax federal regulations could have been to blame for what went wrong here there's been this montreaux that we have to deregulate we have to take away regulations so business can thrive and obviously we see examples like this or fukushima for example where when we do that we suffer the consequences in the end and so i think and we're seeing it with the environmental protection agency today where they are promulgating new regulations if there is a mother to push a virtual world all of the clean up to being much more lax than it

currently is and not force people to be moved out of the area because of radiation damage so there's this tremendous move. to to deregulate things to take away the powers of the e.p.a. and other regulatory agencies and i think that we're seeing now that that's a very dangerous precedence iraq goes to the polls on saturday but the elections already been madhu's deadly sectarian violence a suicide bombing that's killed at least twenty seven in baghdad could east leaders are pushing for independence in the provisional ballot despite strong government objections at stake two of the massive old deposits in the country's north which both sides want to exploit his outies lucy caffein of. they call them those who face death gone once guerrilla rebels fighting saddam for an independent kurdistan now an officially sanctioned force in iraq's semi autonomous kurdish region the peshmerga and the iraqi troops are supposed to be on

the same side after all they're citizens of one country but for more than a year now here in northern iraq the two armies have been pitted against each other their weapons locked and loaded these peshmerga soldiers are on alert twenty four hours a day they're guarding the kurdish front line of the so-called disputed territory now no iraq the soldiers are allowed beyond this point if either army advances if there's even a single misfire it could spark a new war. it's a war the peshmerga is ready for. we have enough forces in place and enough firepower for the peshmerga go to defend against any surprises if for attacks of course we will retaliate at the heart of the disputed territory is cure kuku which both baghdad and the kurds say belongs to them. it's like

a small version of iraq with sunni shia christians arabs and kurds it's disputed because. but of course the other reason is. the oil fires illustrate the main reason that this land is so hotly contested here kuka sitting on an estimated ten billion barrels of oil and is responsible for a large chunk of iraq's current output that's enough to sustain an independent state should the kurds get their way and annex this disputed territory it's also enough to bankrupt iraq if the oil revenue is lost. that revenue makes up ninety five percent of iraq's annual budget of more than one hundred billion dollars and there's a lot more money at stake the international energy agency says iraq could export a staggering five truly. in dollars worth of oil over the next two decades the kurds and the central government are supposed to share these profits but they haven't been able to sort out how. the oil line guys it is all iraqi

people. are having to buy coals to sion but no no there is no we'll solve acceptable and standing between all iraqis on the revenue sharing this is the key problem. or oil has transformed kurdistan into a boom town and the capital of arbil construction projects dot the landscape there are luxury malls and foreign investors are flocking here in the region looks and feels like a different country and for the kurds that may be the ultimate goal but for now this is one iraq divided into two you have facial between. iraqi military and. military and when you have a situation like this it causes tension and if something goes wrong it can lead to . actual fight between the two sides. blood for oil is

a scenario that no one in iraq wants to see but the army's remain in place each side carefully watching the other kurd versus arab iraqi versus iraqi lucy catherine of r t reporting from the disputed territories in iraq. let me bring you up to speed now if you will of what we know about what's happening in boston the boston manhunt going the bombing suspects have been named a twenty six year old timer and so now you have these nineteen year old brother they are believed to be from russia's north caucasus region for the family moved to the united states back in two thousand and two it's reported that one of the suspects spent half a year in russia recently their uncle went on camera to deny links to church and terrorism the elder of the two brothers was killed earlier today in a shootout with the police right now there's an intense manhunt underway throughout the boston area for the surviving suspect with much of the city streets all but deserted for many hours now the best part of the day f.b.i.

agents and members of the national guard are involved in a large scale manhunt along with hundreds of police there conducting door to door searches it's reported that explosives were found at one location where the two men were initially traits to a lot of pressure cooker similar indeed to the one used in the marathon bombing residents who want to stay indoors still and not let anyone into their homes unless they can verify them as a police officer or representative that's what we know so far you keep her across all of course on our website we've got minute by minute updates the latest pictures as well as our t. dot com it's now twenty minutes to ten o'clock at night here in moscow about that in twenty minutes with the latest from boston as police continue to search for the second bombing suspect plus of the latest on the rest of the world's news next though we talk to a leading israeli journalist on the world of intelligence. ok going.

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the international airport in the very heart of moscow. with me i have you'll see moment one of his roles leading journalists and commentators on security and intelligence affairs he also coauthored the book spies against armageddon inside israel's secret wars mr mehlman thank you very much for joining us here on all it's my pleasure thank you how involved is weighty spies

inside iran iran is considered by the israeli government by these really diligence as a high priority it's a number one priority and therefore there is a lot of intelligence involved there and the door there together information but when you say israeli spies doesn't mean this is early that is israelis. recruiting. and try to send its own spies inside iran there are other means of collecting the information is held behind the assassination of ukrainian scientists and also hacking into even computer systems. well i i can't reveal sources so i would i would not i would not detail them but. it's our understanding that israel was behind it it's based on some. logic that that was a predator identified with previous operations in other parts of the world it's

part of really intelligence in the submarine for addition in some rare cases carry if necessary assassination attempts and some other or bits of information which i can i don't wish to detain the western world try to use diplomacy to prevent north korea from acquiring nuclear power but it didn't help do you think it's the same situation with iran well exactly this is the this is the point. iran wants nuclear weapons for various reasons. iran wants to be. to have a good morning in the region. nuclear weapons in the hands of a country means national bride scientific interest infrastructure or technological development. but also it's it's a government for this survival of the region why because we see the north korean

example north korea has developed nuclear weapons and we assume they have nuclear weapons they even tried it with three test although they did not socks not succeed . because they were they know that if you have nuclear weapons. no one is messing up with you and this is the north korean. president and the iranians know it and they want to repeat it so yes diplomacy has failed with north korea but diplomacy is also failing with iran in your opinion do you think israel is trying to maneuver the united states to attack iran i wouldn't use the world maneuvering israel wants america to attack iran as a last resort when if diplomacy fails and it did failed so far even the sanctions are no where and at the end of the day iran would not cave in to the pressure

and would assemble limbaugh in such a case israel prefers that america would do the job not only because it's more convenient but above all because america has the capabilities. to inflict a major blow on iran's nuclear sites while israel capabilities are very very limited what do you think was going on behind the scenes during president obama's recent. up to israel who exactly was putting pressure on these have iran i would say that america simply or president obama in this case simply asked israel daunte do anything which would not be called the native does in other words don't take iran unless it is coordinated with guns don't surprise us could israel carry out an attack without a coordination i i don't believe that israel would take iran we wrote it in our

book i have been writing it in my newspaper articles for the last five years when every here and there in the international media was saying this era is that crucially or next year is the crucial year i don't think israel will attack you run because the israeli capabilities are limited we can do it but the damage that we can inflict upon you run and its nuclear site is is very limited and if let's say the big question is. if israel attacks iran what would be the damage and if the damage would slow down the iranian nuclear program for one year or a year and a half and then they would rebuild it i don't think it's worth taking the risk and there is a great risk involved in such an attack what the key the difference between an israeli strike on iran today as opposed to the strikes israel carried out on syria

in two thousand and seven and on iraq in the eighty's or it's a it's a huge difference it's a it's a difference that can be compared to day and night the attack on syria was by was by surprise there was one target. the distance was very short you knew you did not need a lot of. weight to be carried in other words armaments to be care. israel was pretty confident that all our airplanes would return almost safely while with iran it's the opposite the distances are longer or. israel does not have enough airplanes to carry an effective attack on iran iran would certainly retaliate and maybe would drag israel into a prolonged war of attrition at the same time though when it's all carried out

those strikes it was very quiet after operations as you say they were surprised operations there's a lot of noise happening around a possible israeli strike on iran could that suggest that israelis are concerned that they might not in fact be able to carry out a successful strike but that's the argument if you want to carry an operation new dawn talk and you don't talk to the this is the level that is really the specially netanyahu has been talking about it that's one reason why i don't think that israel would attack iran the foreman said he demanded gun publicly said that he was against a strike on iran what is he favor instead they are saying that week we should take more. or should being engaged in more coverage operations to try to slow down iranian nuclear sites but above all israel has to be in concert to be coronated with the united states and the international community

and israel should not take the lead in the runnion case so their argument is if israel at this specially the guns argument is that if israel attacks the damage of the real limited iran would rebuild its nuclear capacity and would use these really take as a justification for building nuclear the nuclear site again is basically iran would say you see we need nuclear weapons because we were attacked. when you went to book did you have any censorship problems i asked because you you don't talk too much about kid on the mossad unit who was allegedly in charge of overseas operations why not well the book was written by. two of us by me i am an israeli journalist by in american journalist so my chapters were were censored i submitted them to the censorship. as any israelis are obliged to and since my

call with the reason america only did not have doing is not under the jurisdiction of these reasons it but i think we have a chapter and we are very proud of the chapter talking about the key don't you need to buy on it which is the spearhead of these really of the in special operations just the my side get away with some of its operations because of these israeli censorship laws no it has nothing to do with it. what do you mean get their way if if the mossad this is is conducting an operation abroad and the operation is revealed. outside israel then this censorship does not have its we cover that to cover their writing. international media can write about. the israeli operations as long as they are

know they know about it these really media on the other subjected to that censorship i have been trying to fight the censorship i sometimes. are saying claiming that it's irrational it's not sensible. and it should be lifted we saw some of that recently with the whole episode of prison x where the israeli journalists were having to rely on foreign reporting to quote on what was happening inside here do you think that person eight. brought to the fore the shortcomings of the censorship laws in this country absolutely this is the example of prisoner x. the australian that committed suicide that was recruited by the mossad came to israel made aliyah work for the mossad and eventually was arrested for betraying the country and while awaiting his trial he committed suicide this is a good case of how this censorship is working and how this angel shit has failed

they try they end the courts it's not only the censorship we have also a system of court again. in this case in the case of reason the gag order prevailed and because of the gag order we really journalists couldn't write about the case although we knew about it i i tried to fight the gag order to bodily i went to courts while the prison erik's was was still alive and i lost the case i was kicked out by the judges they said that the court order would remain intact but each shows the failure of the system because the only ones who did not have the information about prison their acts were these really public what does that mean does that mean that they could be other people locked away he that we don't know about because of this whole censorship well you see one of the damage is that prisoner x.

affair code is to israel i think is the image of israel as a free democratic society what is the relationship like between the american intelligence agency and the israelis is there a trust in the relationships or is there a lot of mistrust we exchange information with we share assessments sometimes we do joint operations in the field together with the americans but obviously the thrust is not under a percent always the reason kind of a mistrust the. because you don't share even with your best friend everything you you you possess have israel's enemies ever managed to plant agents within the israeli government their series yes our history has a lot of cases in which foreign agents were planted in our most sensitive and highly security institutions the intelligence community scientific is the toots and so on. but. all in all i would say

these are rare cases the the general trend is big that it is really a very difficult society to to penetrate because it's there is a great sense of patriotism in this country it's a very homogeneous society if you want to spy on someone you you can spy but israel is more difficult to crack than other countries mr mehlman thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. thank you. alison.

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the others on the run after a police shootout submerges of the suspects family moved to the u.s. about a decade ago after a year in the north caucasus you see live pictures there boston is currently still in lockdown and it's been that way since before dawn there's a huge manhunt underway as locals of want to stay on the streets. hello good evening this is r.t. with me kevin oh it's now ten pm here in the russian capital and it's two in the afternoon in boston where our top story continues to break police they're planning to carry out a controlled explosion they say now as they chase new leads and go door to door in search of a suspect in the boston bombings the city's.